Hypaspist
Sign in to saveright|thumb|220px|Ancient depiction of a Macedonian infantryman (right). He is equipped with an Argive shield, so probably is a Hypaspist. He also wears a linothorax cuirass and a [[Thracian helmet. Alexander Sarcophagus.]] thumb|upright=1.5|A Hypaspist|alt= A hypaspist ( "shield bearer" or "shield covered") is a squire, man at arms, or "shield carrier". In Homer's Iliad, Deiphobos advances "" () or under cover of his shield. By the time of Herodotus (426 BC), the word had come to mean a high status soldier as is strongly suggested by Herodotus in one of the earliest known uses:
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